ubuntu · CVE-2016-6255

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Priority: high Published: 2017-03-07 16:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:07:38 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-6255 high priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libupnp), 17 status rows across 17 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 7, ignored 5, not-affected 2, released 2, needed 1.

Description:

Portable UPnP SDK (aka libupnp) before 1.6.21 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files in the webroot via a POST request without a registered handler.

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